Linebacker Demario Davis and the New Orleans Saints reach a two-year contract agreement.
During his six seasons as the Saints’ defensive team captain, Demario Davis has started all 98 regular season games.
Linebacker Demario Davis has agreed to a two-year contract extension with the New Orleans Saints through the 2025 campaign, the team announced on Monday. Davis is an executive vice president and general manager for the team, Mickey Loomis.
The New York Jets originally selected Davis, 6-2, 248-pound veteran of 12 years in the NFL, in the third round (77th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft, out of Arkansas State. The native of Brandon, Mississippi, has participated in 181 regular season games with the Jets (2012–15 and 2017), Cleveland Browns (2016), and Saints (2018), starting 180 of them.
In those games, he has racked up 1,335 tackles (860 solo), 43.5 sacks, three interceptions, 55 passes defensed, four forced fumbles, eight fumble recoveries, and 24 special teams stops. Davis has surpassed the century mark in seven consecutive seasons and ten of the last twelve campaigns. He is one of just three active players with at least 1,300 career stops.
